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About Tufts

Tufts is a leader in American higher education, distinctive for its success as a moderately sized university that excels at research and providing students with a personal experience. Our unique combination of research and liberal arts attracts students, faculty and staff who thrive in our environment of curiosity, creativity and engagement.

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Tufts' libraries across all campuses provide essential resources, information and technology to support your studies, scholarship and research.

Tisch Library

Ginn Library (The Fletcher School)

Hirsh Health Sciences Library

Webster Family Library (Veterinary)

W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library (SMFA)

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As a Tufts employee, you become part of a community of hard-working, intellectually curious and creative individuals. We offer a wide range of employment opportunities and resources to support Tufts’ diverse academic environment

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Innovation

We engender a collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment with the unique potential to make a significant impact on complex local and global challenges.

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New & Notable

Tufts University begins new era of innovation, discovery with opening of Science and Engineering Complex

Interdisciplinary space to serve as hub of innovation, research and collaboration

Educators gather to tackle challenges of K-12 engineering education

Tufts University to host LEGO® Education Symposium and Tufts STEM Education Conference
Tufts School of Dental Medicine marks 150 years of education, training and research
Researchers devise more effective location awareness for the Internet-of-(many)-Things

The vast number of devices connected on 5G networks can help locate themselves, rather than rely on centralized “anchors”
Early life trauma in men associated with reduced levels of sperm microRNAs

In mice, the same changes to sperm miRNAs occur and are transmitted to the next generation

Spotlights

Water: Systems, Science, and Society (WSSS)

A graduate-level program that takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding water issues worldwide. Provides students with the perspectives and tools to manage water-related problems.
Civic Seed

An innovative, multiplayer game developed at Tisch College to prepare students for work in the community.
Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction

Promotes the health, strengths and well-being of humans and animals through multidisciplinary partnerships that foster innovative research, education and service programs in human-animal interaction.
Bridge Professorships

Encouraging the recruitment of interdisciplinary faculty whose teaching and research are relevant to multiple academic units.
USAID One Health Workforce Emerging Pandemic Threats 2 Program

An international partnership of universities focused on strengthening global workforce development against emerging pandemic threats.
Tisch College Community Research Center

Promotes collaborative research with community partners to redress issues of disparity, inequality and social injustice.